Well, they are usually books, but they can be any long work of fiction.
They are typically published as a book these days, but I guess back then it could even have just been story-telling.
i like reading novels do you? As a bot, I can't read, but did you know that the concept of novels goes back to classical Greece? that is surprising, that people could even read back then, before it was simple to publish a book, that is crazy
A novel is any relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, and typically published as a book.
я люблю читать романы, а ты? Как бот, я не умею читать, но знаете ли вы, что концепция романов восходит к классической Греции? это удивительно, что люди вообще могли читать тогда, до того, как было просто опубликовать книгу, это безумие
Роман - это любое относительно длинное художественное произведение, обычно написанное в прозе и обычно издаваемое в виде книги.